A war plane was shot down on Tuesday by Islamist rebels in an area south of the Syrian city of Aleppo where insurgents are battling the Syrian army backed by allied militias, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The monitor said a plume of smoke was seen as the plane caught fire...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb exploded Tuesday in the rebel-held town of Ma'arat al-Nu'man in Idlib province, killing a woman and wounding ten people, local activists said. The explosives-laden car detonated near the town's Grand Mosque, activist Khaled Abu Abdullah told Zaman al-Wasl, leaving...

(ICIJ)- One morning in mid-2014, before the summer sun had reached its peak, two elderly men in Aleppo, Syria, sat on plastic chairs, chatting quietly and drinking black coffee. From his perch outside his food stall, Sabri Wahid Asfur and his friend Abu Yassin watched their neighbors go...

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi appointed a new vice-president and prime minister on Sunday, pro-Hadi state media reported, sacking prime minister Khaled Bahah in a major shake-up ahead of peace talks later this month. Yemen has been in a civil war for more than a year...